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there is a counter argument that USAID was a saviors camp for white people to "solve" the problems that systemic inequity against africa and the rest of the dev
by metalman 4mo ago
there is a counter argument that USAID was a saviors camp for white people to "solve" the problems that systemic inequity against africa and the rest of the developing world caused by those same white peoples governments and industrys
- dfansteel 4mo agoThat’s a pretty uninformed argument. For most of the global south USAID was the arm of America they were most likely to interact with. It was food and schools and medicine and disaster relief. It was soft power and goodwill. Not only has the longest charm campaign in history ended, but a door to China and others been opened.
- DemocracyFTW2 4mo agoIf you were right it would still be wrong to solve the bigger equation by first cancelling the good things that trickled from the US GDP in the general direction of people whose lives are on the line, many of them children. And this is exactly what they did, and it is shameful.